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WASHINGTON — Today, Congressmen Jared Golden (ME-02) released his plan to ensure all Maine people have quality, affordable healthcare. Golden's healthcare roadmap includes short-term and long-term plans to help lower healthcare costs and expand coverage to every American.
BANGOR, Maine — Congressman Jared Golden opened his third district office in Bangor on Saturday.
The office is locatedon State Street in downtown Bangor. Golden said he held the open house to hear from Mainers and discuss the work he's doing in Congress.
He said the event is also an opportunity for people to meet him and his staff and hear about the resources and services available through the office.
The representative fo Maine's Second Congressional District took questions from constituents and talked about his goals this year in Washington, DC
He said his number one goal was ending the government shutdown
He also said this new office will have two staff members working there, and opportunities for paid internships.
First-term U.S. Rep. Jared Golden joins us to discuss his first weeks on the job representing Maine's 2nd Congressional District. We'll ask about the government shutdown, his committee assignments and first floor speech and the president's decision to declare a national emergency in order to get additional funding for a border wall.
Listen to our discussion here
WASHINGTON — Congressmen Jared Golden (ME-02) and Don Young (AK-At Large) introduced new bipartisan legislation to address the longtime decline in younger Americans entering the commercial fishing industry. Golden and Young introduced H.R. 1240, the Young Fishermen's Development Act with original cosponsors Representatives Seth Moulton (MA-06) and Aumua Amata (American Samoa). The bill creates the first ever national grant program through the Department of Commerce to support training, education, and workplace development for the nation's next generation of commercial fishermen.
WASHINGTON — As Maine people struggle with ever-increasing healthcare costs, Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) introduced a bill today to help address unfair price hikes for prescription drugs. Golden's legislation imposes penalties on pharmaceutical companies who harm consumers with sudden, exorbitant price increases and promotes competition among manufacturers to lower drug prices.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WABI) - Congressman Jared Golden is introducing a bill designed to stop drug companies that try to unfairly raise drug prices.
The bill would punish pharmaceutical companies that raise the price on a drug more than 10 percent within one year.
"It would then go on into the second year and say if they go up with their prices by more than 18 percent and so on into the third to prevent them from increasing prices unfairly on consumers."
WASHINGTON D.C. — As public frustration with rising prescription drug prices rises, Maine's four-member congressional delegation is rallying behind efforts to lower the cost.
"Skyrocketing drug prices are making it more and more difficult for Americans to access the treatments they require," U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said recently.
"Year after year, Mainers get soaked by high drug prices. It's past time our country addressed this issue," said U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, a 2nd District Democrat.
2nd District U.S. Rep. Jared Golden is urging his colleagues on the House Small Business Committee to develop an infrastructure package that focuses on small businesses and rural states.
He pressed U.S. Chamber of Commerce Vice President Thomas Sullivan to lay out the priorities of Chamber members.
"Would they would put the priority on something like broadband, would they put it on something like rail development, would they put it in straight roads and bridges?" asked Golden.
Sullivan responded, "all of the above."